NYT: Suspects in Daniel Pearl killing still at large, report says

Nine years after Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was captured and killed by Al Qaeda militants in Pakistan, a new report found that more than a dozen suspects in his murder remain at large, The New York Times reported Thursday.

The Times also wrote that the report, by a team of journalists working at Georgetown University, revealed that American investigators had used a new forensic technique called “vein-matching.”

The technique, which involved studying the pattern of veins on the killer’s hands, helped investigators conclude that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, a senior Al Qaeda operative, decapitated Pearl. Mohammed’s reported confession has been doubted because he may have been tortured, the Times reported.